Logo
Quote by John Burroughs
I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either wit

I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy. – John Burroughs

Other quotes by John Burroughs

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. – John Burroughs

Category:
great
Author
John Burroughs
Read Quote

When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on his back and the hue of the other on his breast. – John Burroughs

Category:
Birds
Author
John Burroughs
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Happiness
category

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. – Hosea Ballou

Category:
Happiness

I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesnt promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances. – Patricia Heaton

Category:
Happiness

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit. – Denis Waitley

Category:
Happiness

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment. – Proverb

Category:
Happiness

Random Quotes

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what cant be done. – Henry Ford

Category:
Men

Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. – Bulgarian Proverb

Category:
Mustaches

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language. – Marshall McLuhan

Category:
Art

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. – Hannah Arendt

Category:
Conversation